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JINSA Visiting Fellow Dr. Ehud Eilam makes the case that ensuring the survival of both the PA and the Afghan government requires reliable local security forces capable of imposing law and order and confronting a powerful internal rival: Hamas for the PA, and the Taliban for the Afghan government.

In the latest JINSA Global Briefing, Prof. M.D. Nalapat, of India's Manipal University, explains that if India can surmount its ossified and regressive political structures and empower its citizens it could take a leading role in the Anglosphere - the group of wealthy, democratic, English-speaking countries of the world. For its part, he contends, the Obama administration has yet to demonstrate that it recognizes what India - the world's most populous English-speaking country - can bring to the cause of regional and global stability, security and prosperity.

In the latest JINSA Global Briefing, M.D. Nalapat, Vice-Chair of the Manipal Advanced Research Group and UNESCO Peace Chair as well as Professor of Geopolitics at Manipal University in India's Karnataka State, explains that in the 21st century version of the Great Game, China seeks to replace the U.S. as the dominant player in Asia by manipulating Pakistan to ensure a NATO failure in Afghanistan.

After eight years of unprecedented cooperation, the United States and India have begun a slow drift apart, an article by JINSA Research Associate Jacob Levkowicz reports. Relations have been strained over differences related to Washington's "Af-Pak" policy and the Obama Administration's lack of action on the 2008 civilian nuclear fuel deal.

Colonel (ret.) Richard Kemp, CBE, commander of British Forces in Afghanistan in 2003, explains what the British should make of their rising casualties in Afghanistan in the latest JINSA Global Briefing.

M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, explains that India's capable diplomatic service is being stymied by a wall of ambivalence erected by the New Delhi's top policy makers, both within the political crust as well as the bureaucracy. Meanwhile, Beijing's dynamic and decisive foreign policy is winning China countries deemed important to India's security.

M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, analyzes the recent Indian elections that saw a crushing defeat for the right-of-center BJP and gave the ruling Congress Party a strong hold of the parliament.

M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, explains that unless the police in India are given the manpower, the remuneration and the equipment and training needed to evolve into a modern and professional force they are at risk of being ineffective against not just the criminals but against a foe even deadlier - the terrorist.

M.D. Nalapat, Professor of Geopolitics at India's Manipal University, explains that from March 2 to the expected swearing-in of a new government at the end of May, India has once again relapsed to "election mode," where effective governance has passed from the elected representatives of the people to the Election Commission composed of three former bureaucrats who have given to themselves dictatorial power during this period.